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December 23, 2008 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Cable stops #1183891

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Thanks guys

I have already looked at classic car/bike sources, but will try again! There must be some out there…

Cheers

December 23, 2008 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Unknown wrecksite found. #1183895

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Looks American to me Peter

December 20, 2008 at 11:21 am in reply to: A.W. Whitley crashsite in Norway…….. #1186951

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Thanks Gauteballe

Is there any chance of a higher resolution copy of the newspaper scan please? My email is elliott1940 at yahoo.com.

All the best

December 20, 2008 at 11:19 am in reply to: Norway Skua – any progress? #1186952

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Steady on chaps – I couldn’t even see an intact fin on the recovery pics. I think a lot more of this aircraft will be preserved than you think, maybe the fin remains were tackled first becuase they were so poor.

The Browning is amazing!

Great work

December 18, 2008 at 6:13 pm in reply to: RAF Museum Photographic Collection #1188330

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They should post some of them on here – i’m sure they could get a few IDd that way

December 17, 2008 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Whitley ? #1189499

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Hi there

I’m not sure which aircraft that is, but it’s not a Whitley!

Cheers

December 17, 2008 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Some Whitley progress #1190015

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Thanks Cees

No one has been able to produce any evidence that the Whitley in the Baltic has actually been found contrary to what was reported in the aviation press.

Currently I am waiting for the centre section jig to come through – I submitted the design some time ago and am still waiting for it! Just a matter of time.

Thanks for the offer of autopilot parts – i’ll keep a note!

Cheers

December 14, 2008 at 9:21 pm in reply to: Otterburn Ranges? #1193139

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I remember reading about a Hampden wich crashed on Otterburn range during the war. I always wondered about how careful they were about removing it.

December 14, 2008 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Some Whitley progress #1193162

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Thanks for posting that Junk Collector

That looks like the mass balance from the rudder – well spotted folks. We have the remains of the other end, where it arises from the rudder, but not the balance itself as they tend to break off.

There should be a part number on the lead part. Any chance it might be surplus? There’s a place for it in the rather long restoration queue!

I’m sure a trade could be worked out if needed.

All the best

Yes a weight for sure the chap I was talking to was going on about a Wellington crash and a Whitley in the same area though the information pointed to a Whitley in the exact area I was in.

December 14, 2008 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Some Whitley progress #1193252

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Thanks Ant and Peter for your kind words

It is a long term project, but luckily I am young. There is a possibility of a major boost on the horizon, but I shouldn’t say any more than that at this stage 🙂

Lottery is an idea although I wonder if all the spare aeroplane cash has already gone to the tin triangle!

Here’s a pic of the escape hatch in situ – it’s above the pilots head (no surprise there!).

December 14, 2008 at 11:56 am in reply to: Rumour of Lanc airframe query #1194044

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Rochford

Margate is miles away – maybe it was Ramsgate? I have seen a picture of a heli crewman embracing a prop blade sticking up out of the mud but that in itself doesn’t prove it is the Lanc.

Be nice to see the fin picture you mention.

December 14, 2008 at 11:42 am in reply to: Rumour of Lanc airframe query #1194053

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I know the flats well but never saw any Lanc remains. I still think that the B-17 remains were confused with the Lanc.

I would be very happy to go out there and take a look if someone can give an accurate location.

December 14, 2008 at 11:37 am in reply to: Spitfire EN179 Resurrected #1194057

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Who knows – maybe someone dredged something up

EN179 was registered G-TCHO yesterday (12th December 2008

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detail&aircrafttype=spitfire&dataindex=45

All references to EN179 state that it was lost on 19 August 1943 while with 316 Sqn code either SZ-C or SZ-J. P/O Andrzej Feliks Michal PROCHNICKI KIA on Ramrod 210. It was shot down by a Fw190 over Le Havre, and the aircraft is supposed to have crashed in the Channel. PROCHNICKI is buried at Naours Cemetery.It is supposed to have been painted with the name JASIA

December 11, 2008 at 11:30 am in reply to: Spitfire wing..a new view #1196798

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Maybe, but no-one wants to admit they are a copycat.

In Alfread Price’s Spitfire – A Documentary History, it quotes Shenstone as saying:

” It has been suggested that we at Supermarine had cribbed the wing shape from that of the He70 transport. This was not so. The elliptical wing had been used on other aircraft and its advantages were well known. Our wing was much thinner than that of the Heinkel and had a quite differnt section. In any case it would have been simply asking for trouble to have copied a wing shape from an aircraft designed for an entirely different purpose”

He did go on to say that the He70 did have an influence on the Spitfire tho…the smoothness of the skin impressed him, so he wrote to Heinkel to ask about that….

December 6, 2008 at 7:04 pm in reply to: AGS made easy #1201153

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Good stuff Bruce

Thanks for posting.
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